Tonka | Build Your Own Dump Truck 🛻 | simiSTEM | Hasbro

Welcome to simiSTEM
In today’s video, we are going to build your own 3D Dump Truck by Tonka – Peachtree Playthings – Licensed by Hasbro. This item was purchased at Target. You can collect all four 3D vehicles: police car, fire truck, dump truck, and front loader. Enjoy!

Exploring STEM
From birth, children, teenagers, and young adults explore with STEM by doing the following:
*Asking questions
*Making sense of what they observe
*Building a coherent understanding of the world around them

Science: A crucial component of the science inquiry process
Technology: Requires tools and technology
Engineering: Necessary to share an engineering solution
Mathematics: Provides opportunities for mathematical reasoning

Scientific Inquiry
*Critical thinking
*Creativity
*Innovative problem solving
*Open-mindedness
*Motivation to learn

Engineering with Children
What is it?
Engineering is a process for solving problems. Engineering is a way of thinking that enables children to notice a problem, and then choose to create, build or transform materials into a solution.
When will it occur?
Engineering opportunities arise frequently in children’s play. For example, building experiences, art experiences, and cooking experiences often lead to engineering.
What do teachers/parents need to provide?
Time: Children need time to tinker, explore, and play with problems.
Materials: Children need access to materials that children can manipulate, transform and wonder about.
Tools: Children need practice with tools to tinker and explore materials, as well as use for a specific purpose to solve a problem.
Materials to Support Engineering
*Materials to manipulate: loose parts, different sizes of the same material (different size blocks, seashells, bottle caps, sticks/twigs)
*Materials to create linkages: tape, pipe cleaners, wire, Velcro, string, rubber bands
*Materials that flex: fabric, felt, paper, play dough
*Tools: tweezers, tongs, screw driver, hammer, measuring cup, shovel, pencils, eye dropper, level, scale, goggles, toothpicks, rubber bands

Engineering Design Process:
Plan
Decide on a plan before creating
Test
Compare results to an expectation/guess
Create
Put plan to action
Ask
Expand exploration

Engineering
*Think
*Create/Build
*Try
*Revise
*Share
*Think

Engineering Continuum
1. Tinkering: is using stuff
2. Making: is using stuff to make stuff (that sometimes does stuff, but sometimes is just cool)
3. Engineering: is using stuff to make stuff that does stuff

Mathematics
*Number Sense
*Geometry
*Measurements
*Algebra and Thinking
*Mathematical Reasoning